Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs Qwen1.5-32B

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.1 leads 50.6 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.6% for GPT-5.1 and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
GPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index49.030.5
Released2025-11-132024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6321

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding14541155
SWE-bench Verified68%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1395—
SciCode43.3%—
GSO13.7%—
WeirdML60.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
LiveBench Coding72.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
ALE-Bench1,192—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
LMArena Search1199—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14571130
ARC-AGI-217.6%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
ARC-AGI-172.8%—
CritPt4.9%—
Chess Puzzles32%—
EnigmaEval11.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning95.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench90.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis72.1%—
LMCA43.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index149.64—
ForecastBench58.1—
LiveBench78.8%—

Math GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math14471155
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math94.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond87.6%30.7%
LMArena Expert14701126
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1250—
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English14311106
LMArena Chinese14951177
LMArena French14501101
LMArena German14381058
LMArena Japanese14531027
LMArena Korean14011008
LMArena Russian14351073
LMArena Spanish14331089

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14431116
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%—
IFEval93.5%—

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query14471146
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text14431137
LMArena Creative Writing14271083
LMArena Multi-Turn14501140
WildBench86.3%—
LiveBench Language80.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.1 or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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